Boeing and Rocket Lab hope for the best as both return to launchpad following failures
Space is hard
28 Jul 2021
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Space is hard: Rocket Lab's 20th Electron launch fails
Firm working with FAA to 'investigate the anomaly' after second stage sputters
17 May 2021
El Reg checks in with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck to see how that hat tastes amid reusable rockets and swelling payloads
Interview 'Everything in this industry always goes to schedule and to plan,' he says
26 Apr 2021
Rocket Lab goes large with Neutron – a big rocket for big constellations. Oh, and it confirms a merger proposal
Something for rocket fans and rocket financiers to chew on
01 Mar 2021
SpaceX blows away cobwebs at dormant California pad with satellite launch as a Falcon 9 makes touchdown number 7
In Brief Also: New Zealand owl watching with Rocket Lab and ExoMars 'chute test
27 Nov 2020
We see what you did there: First-stage booster from Rocket Lab's Return to Sender mission floats back to Earth
Electron celebrates a parachute party and is successfully recovered
20 Nov 2020
Rocket Lab to equip 'Return to Sender' with parachutes amid plans to catch an Electron booster with a helicopter
Successful recovery would make it the first and only reusable orbital-class small launch system
05 Nov 2020
How's this for the ultimate gaming achievement? Half-Life 2's Gnome Chompski is going to space – in real life
Drag racing in orbit with Rocket Lab
03 Nov 2020
Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023
Peter Beck and 300 seconds of really rather interesting data
28 Sep 2020
SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve
In Brief Also: Rocket Lab rehearses for a US debut while Firefly fires up an Alpha
22 Sep 2020
Rocket Lab deploys Photon, er, in-house built satellite on Flight 14
In brief Also: More Starlink and hopping fun for SpaceX and Northrop Grumman lights the blue touchpaper for SLS
07 Sep 2020
Rocket Lab boss Peter Beck talks to The Reg about crap weather, reusing boosters, and taking a trip to Venus
Interview 'It's so under-appreciated as a planet compared to Mars'
02 Sep 2020
Just like many of us during lockdown, Arianespace has bulked up payload capacity on its heavy lifter by 85kg
In brief Also: NASA and SpaceX name the date for Crew-1, Orion assembly almost done, and more
17 Aug 2020
Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons
In brief Also: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks
11 Aug 2020
A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure
'Pics or It Didn't Happen' won't be sending back any pics any time soon
06 Jul 2020
US starts sniffing around UK spaceports – though none capable of vertical launches actually exist right now
In brief Plus: SLS boosters arrive at Kennedy, Rocket Lab to go back-to-back with NRO
23 Jun 2020
58 Starlinks scattered across sky, Rocket Lab aims for back-to-back launches, and Skyrora hops 6km above Shetland
Roundup Plus: SpaceX tests a Starship tank to destruction
16 Jun 2020
Northrop Grumman to polish NASA's HALO, techies test tardy telescope tower, SLS boosters ready for Florida
Roundup And other tidbits from the realm of rocketry
10 Jun 2020
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